Re: FN-FORUM GCSE metaphors [OT]

date posted 19th December 2002 11:30

Some of those are actually quite good - especially the "my mate Phil" one.

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> GCSE Metaphors
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> Our thanks to HodgeHog who sent us these.
>
> 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other
> sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
>
> 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
> underpants in a tumble dryer.
>
> 3. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
> bowling ball wouldn't.
>
> 4. McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag
> filled with vegetable soup.
>
> 5. Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
>
> 6. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the
> centre
>
> 7. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
>
> 8. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
>
> 9. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
> fry them in hot grease.
>
> 10. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
> the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
> left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough
> at 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
>
> 11. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the
> Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
>
> 12. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
> also never met.
>
> 13. The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin
> sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
>
> 14. The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.
>
> 15. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only
> one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
>
> 16. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
>
> 17. The plan was simple, like my mate Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan
> just might work.
>
> 18. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
> eating for while.
>
> 19. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student
> on 31p-a-pint night.
>
> 20. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but
> a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine
> or something.
>
> 21. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can
> tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."
>
> 22. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
> just before it throws up.
>
> 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg
> behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.
>
> 24. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
> because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge
> at a formerly surcharge-free cashpoint.
>
> 25. The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating
> electric fan set on medium.
>
> 26. It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
> with their power tools.
>
> 27. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as
> if she were a dustcart reversing.
>
> 28. She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.
>
> 29. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
> room-temperature British beef.
>
> 30. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
>
> 31. Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation
> thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.
>
> 32. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
> to the wall.
>
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